Improvement in car-starters



A. H. CROZIER.

CAR-STARTER.

No.17Z.915. Patented Feb. 1, 1.876.-

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ARCHIBALD E. CECZIEE, on CARLYLE, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN lCAR-STARTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 172,915, dated February 1, 1876 application filed November 19, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, ARCHIBALD H. GRCZIER., of Carlyle, in the county of Clinton and State of Illinois, have inventeda new and Improved Combined Car Brake and Starter, ot which the following is a specitication:

The invention consists of an arrangement of apparatus ot novel contrivance, whereby a spring is employed as the brake to stop the car, and as a means of starting it again by the power expended -in stoppingit', and which is stored up in the spring.

Figure 1 is a plan of'the bottom ot' a car having my improved brake and starter. Fig. 2 is a transverse section taken on linens ou, and Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional elevation taken on the line y y of Fig.,1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A is a bevel-wheel, keyed fast to one of the car-axles, and B is 'another Wheel facing it, but tted so as to turn and slide on the axle,

and having a rose-clutch, C, for connecting to the axle, so as to turn it, When desired; it also has a sleeve, D, extending nearly to Wheel A, and coupled by a crotched arm, E, with the rock-shaft F, by which the driver shifts the gear, as required, for stopping and starting, using the lever Gr, which extends up to his place from the front end of the shaft. The sleevel D is also the bearing for one end of the shaft G', on which is a wheel, I, for gearing with wheel A; also a Wheel, H, for gearing withwheel B, and also a driver, K, for winding up a spring or springs, Il, and which has its other Abearing in Vthe arm J of a rockshaft, F, so thatby the oscillating ot the rockshat't the shifting is effected. When wheel I gears with wheel A it Winds vup the spring, which thus exerts its force to stop the car, the wheel B being at this timefdisconnected from clutch C. When shaft G.is;shifted so that wheel I is thrown out of gear"with wheel A, and wheel B is engaged with its clutch, the spring reacts and expcnds its force in starting the car. The wheel B is larger than wheel A, and thus affords greater leverage to the power 0f the spring in starting than it has in .stopother Way the wheel -B engages with the' clutch before I escapes from A. This may be accomplished lby -dil'erent arrangements of means; butin this case the clutch is made to move with the wheel B-that is, in the same .direction atthe same time-but to go slower, so

that the Wheel passes away from it going one way, and catches up to it going the otherg Way, the movement of the clutch being effected by the lever 0, which is connected at its swinging end to the arm J by thelink P.

The stud-pin is used only to make sure that the clutch will not catch the wheel B whenv stopping the car. A coiled spring, Q, in the hub of the clutch presses it forward to the Wheel B or stop-pin, and takes up any lost ,motion 'there may be in consequence ot' stopping it, while thc wheel B continues to move.

Having thus described my invention, I claim' as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. The combination, with spring L and axlepinion A, of shaft G, having drum K and wheels H I, and sliding clutch-sleeve D h aving wheel B, the sleeve and shaft being connected together so as to be simultaneously `moved bythe same rock-,shaft in the manner described.

2. The combination, with wheels A B H I, of sleeves C D, moving together in the same direction, for the purpose set forth.'

' 3.'The lever O, attached to sleeveV C and i connected by parts J P with the sliding shaft G, as'and for the purpose specified. ARCHIBALD E. CRCZIEE.

Witnesses: v

M. E. RICHARDS, J oIIN LAWREY. 

